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Firefox - Using Multiple Profiles

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Steps

You can create a new profile with:

firefox -CreateProfile my-profile-name

Then, to launch firefox in that new profile, execute:

firefox -P my-profile-name

You can even set it to automatically open a webpage like so:

firefox -P my-profile-name outlook.office365.com &

List Profiles

If you want to see a list of your profiles from within firefox, just go to:

about:profiles

References

Last updated: 9th August 2023
First published: 18th December 2020

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